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    Yesterday

    Lineage’s Australian sites include what was Oxford Cold Storage’s Laverton North premises in Victoria.

    World’s biggest IPO has Australian flavour and implications

    It might lack burritos, but we’re watching Lineage, a food storage play with Australian assets trying to secure a $30 billion listing.

    • Anthony Macdonald
    Mercedes Benz

    No great leap to self-driving cars, just small steps

    The head of Mercedes-Benz’s automation program admits self-driving is lagging, but says the tech is already bringing big gains in safety.

    • Tony Davis

    This Month

    Professor Allan Fels releases the final report of an independent toll review on Tuesday.

    Review finds Transurban should be forced to renegotiate Sydney tolls

    The recommendations put the NSW government on a collision course with the ASX-listed motorway giant, which controls 11 of the city’s 13 toll roads.

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    • Jenny Wiggins
    Former ACCC chairman Allan Fels is looking at ways to make Sydney’s motorways network more connected.

    Transurban hijacks NSW toll review, raises social licence stakes

    Transurban changed its tune in June, promising to be part of the solution. It has six months to come up with something better for Sydney’s drivers.

    • Anthony Macdonald
    Elon Musk has said Mars could be colonised by the 2030s.

    Elon Musk wants to colonise Mars, seriously

    The billionaire has directed SpaceX employees to design a Martian city, which he expects could have a million residents in 20 years.

    • Kirsten Grind
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    Lim Kim Hai stepped down as the chairman of Rex last month, but has now called for other directors to go.

    Rex faces boardroom coup as Singaporean investors push to oust chair

    The largest shareholder of the regional carrier has called for a shareholder vote just a month after he stepped down as the airline’s executive chairman.

    • Kylar Loussikian
    The Qantas board is under pressure amid competition regulator allegations it deliberately sold flights that had already been cancelled.

    ASIC queried Qantas’ knowledge of ACCC investigation as shares fell

    The regulator wrote to the competition watchdog requesting a “a better understanding” of the probe into ticket sales on cancelled flights, emails reveal.

    • Vesna Poljak and Kylar Loussikian

    Transport needs to avoid becoming the nation’s biggest emitter

    Without dramatic changes, this may be the last industry to decarbonise. Aurizon, the winner of the Logistics and Transport category, aims to change that with its electric locomotive.

    • Agnes King
    Allan Fels.

    RBC hitches a ride on NSW’s toll roads shake-up

    In accepting the gig, RBC is also indirectly squaring off against ASX-listed toll roads giant Transurban, which owns stakes in 11 of Sydney’s 13 toll roads.

    • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

    June

    Joe Aston on Qantas’ nosedive | Star CEO’s danger money | Myer’s makeover

    This week, Anthony and special guest Joe Aston get advice on negotiating pay from Star Entertainment’s recruit, look at Qantas’ latest fall from grace and go shopping with Solomon Lew at Myer.

    A roadside charging station in action. Ausgrid says NSW needs 30,000 of them.

    The reason Australians aren’t buying electric cars

    The industry can overcome “range anxiety” by building thousands of charging stations across Australia, experts say.

    • Aaron Patrick
    John Mullen will chair Qantas from July.

    Will John Mullen’s emotional intelligence work at Qantas?

    The business veteran’s decency, toughness and persistence could make him one of the airline’s great chairmen.

    • Aaron Patrick
    Qatar Airways is considering taking a stake of up to 20 per cent in Virgin Australia.

    Virgin stake sale to Qatar won’t change focus on profits

    Selling part of Virgin Australia to the Middle Eastern airline is unlikely to rattle Qantas’ market dominance, analysts say.

    • Jenny Wiggins
    Qatar Airways is said to be eyeing a 20 per cent stake in Virgin Australia.

    Qatar in talks to take up to 20pc stake in Virgin

    The transaction, if successful, would hand the Qatari carrier up to 20 per cent of the private equity-owned airline and comes amid a stalled ASX float process.

    • Ayesha de Kretser, Anthony Macdonald and Myriam Robin
    Fiji Airways soars above Qantas and Air New Zealand to win best airline in the Pacific.

    Qantas plummets in world airline rankings, again

    Fiji Airways beat Qantas and Air New Zealand in the global poll in which the Australian carrier recorded its worst performance for a decade.

    • Ayesha de Kretser
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    Rex is crashing the party on airfares to Perth.

    Cost of Perth flights to fall 40 per cent during school holidays

    Analysis by the Australian Airports Association shows Melbourne to Perth fares will drop to the lowest levels since 2010.

    • Ayesha de Kretser
    Virgin Australia has streamlined its operations, but is in danger of becoming squeezed between premium services and budget carriers.

    Virgin IPO may not fly for next boss

    There are plenty of big questions for the airline’s next chief executive – including what the carrier will look like, and how it will be owned, in the long run.

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    • Ayesha de Kretser
    A Tesla Model X.

    Prepare for yet another big EV adoption hurdle

    Apartment owners and strata managers are unprepared for the costs and complications of securing building insurance for blocks with electric vehicle owners and charging facilities.

    • Jennifer Hewett
    It’s bankers, lawyers and fund managers at 10 paces with the $1 billion MMA Offshore up for grabs.

    A PE firm, two profit updates, and a $1b deal hanging by a thread

    At stake is the future of back-from-the-almost-dead vessels owner MMA Offshore, which is rollicking after a life-saving recapitalisation.

    • Anthony Macdonald
    Incoming Qantas chairman John Mullen said businesses should adopt balanced approaches to social issues that could outlast a government.

    Big business’ Voice advocacy backfired: new Qantas chairman

    John Mullen said businesses should not be “completely anaesthetised” on social issues, but warned it can be dangerous for firms to back politicised causes.

    • Nick Bonyhady